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July Pals Blog Hop “It’s a Pattern Party”

Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop “It’s a Pattern Party” for July 2016. We are thankful you stopped by to take a look at our new 2016 Blog Hop monthly themes. This month we are featuring projects using our favorite Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper (after all, it is a Pattern Party) as well as coordinating embellishments. What we love about Stampin’ Up! is they make it so easy to mix and match colors. And, the amazing selection of embellishments provides a wonderful finished look to our projects. We hope to provide you with lots of ideas and that you enjoy our creations.

You may just be starting the Blog Hop or may have come from the previous link from the Line-up (our very own Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs) on the Pals Blog Hop listing shown below. The full lineup will help you move along from blog to blog so you may see all the projects.

The Story of my Adventure into the Never Ending card (also known as the Endless or Infinity Card)

A very good friend of mine received a Christmas card this past holiday. It was given to her from another very good friend who also loves Stampin’ Up! I was literally mesmerized by the card fold. So my friend left the card and the instructions (so generously provided by our other friend) with me to learn this card fold. I looked the instructions over and shuddered! Then I put this project on a back burner to try at some distant date. The date is here, spurred on by our blog hop topic of Pattern Paper.

The above photo of this card is not actually the front of my card. This photo gallery will show you each of the panels as the card is flipped from one panel to the next…

Now can you can see the link to our July Pals Blog Hop theme of “It’s a Pattern Party”. How wonderful this card fold is to display many designer series papers (DSP) that would coordinate with a stamp set.

The stamp set is new in our Stampin’ Up! catalog this year. It is called “Seaside Shore”. The coordinating DSP is “By the Shore” DSP. The colors incorporated into this DSP are Calypso Coral, Dapper Denim, Mint Macaron, Soft Sky and Very Vanilla. These are some of my most favorite colors! And, although there are plenty of coordinating embellishments in these colors, I have not added any to the card yet. With this card fold, I am concerned about adding too much bulkiness. Give me time… I will see what works (or you can report back to me what worked for you!!)

I am sharing another gallery of pictures to show my first attempt with this card fold. It will help display the card movement. I did choose my most favorite DSP, Floral Boutique, to tackle this project. Even though it is not decorated by any other images, this DSP is gorgeous and certainly deserves to be in any “Pattern Party.” It will serve as a fantastic template for future technique classes.

First Panel

Opening First Panel for Neverending Card

Second Panel

Opening Second Panel

Third Panel

Opening Third Panel

Fourth Panel

Opening Fourth Panel which reveals First Panel

How to Make Your Own Never Ending Card

So, are you intrigued by the Never Ending card fold like I was? I have discovered it has been around for a very long time. Therefore this may not be as new to you as it was to me. My first introduction to the fold was in a video that is proprietary. However, if you search the internet, there are lots of public shares to this card fold. Since Splitcoaststampers is familiar to most stampers, I will provide a link to their video instruction (which happens to coincide with my final card size of 6″ x 6″.

16 thoughts on “July Pals Blog Hop “It’s a Pattern Party””

Oh Katy, this is awesome!!! I’ve seen this Infinity or Endless cards and I love them but never really attempted to make one. Your card is amazing, the pattern papers and images just go together “swimmingly”, love it, love it!!
Thank you for the link to that video, I’m going to sit down and watch it right now!!
Big hugs, my friend.
Maria.

Katy!! You are so adventuresome! I saw the video on Darlene’s site and thought I will never do that! Well, now I may just give it a try!! Thanks for the inspiration!! The DSP with your layouts are so pretty too! Julie

This is a fascinating fold! I’ve not seen it before and would love to have a go. Seaside Shore and the matching DSP were the first things I bought from the catalogue and they’ve been so much fun. Thanks for sharing your lovely card!

Katy McGloin

I live in the Kennesaw/Marietta (GA) area with my husband and our two miniature Schnauzer fur babies. I became interested in papercrafting in 2005 and quickly developed a passion for this hobby. Signing up as an Independent Demonstrator with Stampin' Up! in 2010 started an awesome journey. Please see "My Story" for additional details.

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